First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
Health
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Herbal beer to hit market soon
After Herbal medicines, it's now herbal beer. Long wait is finally over as the National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) has decided to transfer the technology to the Kanpur-based company A&JS
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'Renewed SARS outbreak likely'
Noted Chinese medical expert Zhong Nanshan called on officials, health care workers and the public to guard against a renewed SARS
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Tobacco too can save your life
The sceptic will equate tobacco to just one thing - a vice. Scientists, who have spent their lives trying to improve tobacco yield in Gujarat, tell that you can even extract compounds for life-saving
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Stagnant Sabarmati may pose a health hazard
The sight of Sabarmati 'flowing' bank-to-bank with Namada waters, though a treat for the eyes, could pose a major threat in terms of hygiene in Ahmedabad city, fear doctors. Recently, the city
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Obesity poses death threat
Tobacco is the largest cause of death in the United States, but obesity and a general lack of physical fitness is rapidly catching up and needs to become a priority for the country's healthcare
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Bayer's bad medicine
In the first years of the AIDS epidemic,many victims of the disease were hemophiliacs who used a clotting medicine made by mixing blood plasma from many donors. After the medicine's makers discovered
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Fighting fluorosis
Nothing so tellingly illustrates the inefficiency of the Assam Public Health department than the heart-rending photograph appearing in the media of a young girl with decayed teeth holding up a bottle
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Nagaon jail hard hit by gastroentiritis
According to a report, it is learnt that 70 out of 452 prisoners in the Nagaon Special Jail in Assam have fallen victims of gastroenteritis during the last three days as the dreaded disease has taken
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Sheep die of anthrax
Panic gripped Marala village in Matar taluka of Kheda, Gujarat, recently after 68 sheep died due to anthrax infection over the last fortnight. Kheda district additional magistrate C M Balat declared
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Malaria eradication programme by Bongaigaon dist admin
A district-level malaria eradication programme was chalked out recently at the DC's conference hall here under the chairmanship of Mr Satyen Sarma, ADC, Bongaigaon, Assam. In the meeting, the Joint